Friday, January 25, 2008

Handwashing Reduces Diarrhea

Here we are with fantastic technical advances of the 21st century and surprise! A new study shows that hand washing reduces episodes of diarrhea by 30%. Since diarrhea is caused by pathogens (read: germs) that get passed from human to human or human to food to human...hand washing interrupts this cycle.What was interesting about this report is that hand washing was as effective in preventing